There is uproar over this headline on quite a lot of other sites I go on, football boards, music boards etc. One of the football boards has a link to the PCC which loads of fans have emailed. This is going to be a real shitstorm for the mail. They can try and change the headline, but a picture of the initial headline is going round the net. This is bad, bad publicity.

Fozzy wrote:So if a kid got killed by a car whilst on his way to school today, I take it that in the Mail world that's the teachers' fault for selfishly going back to work?

Swap out the word "Teacher" for "Jew" and you might get some real perspective on how the right-wing press truly operates. Am I being extreme? Try it with every single scapegoating story and haul me off to Gleis 13 if you disagree.

I posted the link on facebook earlier. Unfortunately, one of my friends agrees with the jist of the article, and thinks the teachers should feel bad about it because it's their job to look after kids, and that should come before worrying about their pensions. Fact of the matter is, teachers are responsible for your kids when they're in school. When not in school, for whatever reason, the responsibility lies with the parents. Are the DM going to blame the parents? Of course not. Because it was an ACCIDENT.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:Each drip adds to the stalactite of intolerance, hatred and bile that the Mail creates to serve its own agenda, to create a society in the image of itself that will continue to buy and to click to further enrich AN and Dacre.

Fozzy wrote:So if a kid got killed by a car whilst on his way to school today, I take it that in the Mail world that's the teachers' fault for selfishly going back to work?

Swap out the word "Teacher" for "Jew" and you might get some real perspective on how the right-wing press truly operates. Am I being extreme? Try it with every single scapegoating story and haul me off to Gleis 13 if you disagree.

Or insert the name Harvey Price ... and imagine the fallout.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. Aristotle

How has the DM the GALL to print this when only last week it was condemning teachers for striking and the comments on here were spiteful and full of vitriol? Make your mind up DM and readers.- Isadora, Milton Keynes England, 11/7/2011 7:09Click to rate Rating 28

There's a depressing number of comments calling for the restoration of corporal punishment.

Then there's this cunt and the ten child abusers that agree with him.

makes u want to become a teacher so u can give them all the little toads a good kicking- Phillip, Liverpool, 11/7/2011 18:37Click to rate Rating 10

But it did cheer me up a little to see that our old friend is the worst rated for this gem

Typical moaning from teachers again, they want to try doing REAL WORK for a change. Teachers pay should be cut to encourage them to instill discipline. - Roger, England, 11/7/2011 3:51Click to rate Rating 225